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With the support of an EU grant of 1.9 million euros, Alzheimer's researcher Oskar Hansson will lead and coordinate a research collaboration between Sweden, Spain, France, Germany and Denmark. The goal is to create conditions for early and correct diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. This is to improve the treatment and care of the patients and reduce the societal costs that the disease causes. The i

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/large-eu-project-alzheimers-coordinated-lund-university - 2025-10-29

Lina Rosengren explores factors for maintaining life satisfaction despite suffering from Parkinson’s disease. December 17, she defends her Ph.D. projects supervised by Prof. Jan Lexell. Lina explains her most important findings, future directions, and time as a Ph.D. student in the Rehabilitation Medicine group at MultiPark. Tell us about your research! I work part-time as a physician in Rehabilit

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-lina-rosengren - 2025-10-29

The research group leader Malin Parmar is granted 50 million SEK over 10 years within the Distinguished professor program by the Swedish Research Council. The purpose of the Distinguished Professor Program is to create conditions for the most prominent researchers to conduct long-term, innovative research with great potential to achieve scientific breakthroughs. Malin Parmar is Professor of cellul

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/distinguished-professorship-malin-parmar - 2025-10-29

The career program Wallenberg Academy Fellows is the largest private investment in young researchers in Sweden. It provides the most promising young researchers with long-term resources, giving them excellent opportunities to establish themselves and build up their research groups. Wallenberg Academy Fellows is designed for young researchers and was launched by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Founda

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/daniella-rylander-ottosson-has-been-admitted-wallenberg-academy-fellow - 2025-10-29

From January 2022, MultiPark will have its own coordinator for projects involving Artificial Intelligence. Pär Halje is an assistant researcher in Per Petersson’s Integrative Neurophysiology and Neurotechnology group. For a one year trial period, he will spend 20 % of his time facilitating the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in all-day methods used in MultiPark’s research grou

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/multipark-investing-artificial-intelligence - 2025-10-29

The best of MultiPark 2021 and looking forward to 2022. As 2021 turns towards its end, we can look back on the many positive events we managed to land together this year. In particular, We have awarded salary support for Ph.D. students and young group leaders, which has broadly benefitted our community. We have formed a networking group composed of young researchers (the “Young MultiParkers”) with

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/season-greetings-coordinator - 2025-10-29

In their latest study, published in Nature Communications, the Parmar Lab has established midbrain organoids using silk microfibers as scaffolds, offering a refined in vitro model of human midbrain development. They have studied their silk midbrain organoids using single cell sequencing, proteomics and functional assessment in order to shed light on the developmental trajectory, maturation and sub

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/human-midbrain-organoids-grown-silk-recapitulate-midbrain-development-and-support-functionally - 2025-10-29

During her thesis project, Elin Byman discovered a role of alpha-amylase in Alzheimer’s disease. January 21, she defends her Ph.D. work supervised by Malin Wennström in the Preclinical memory research group at MultiPark. Here, she tells about the journey and major breakthroughs. Tell us about your research! The enzyme alpha-amylase has long been known to be abundant in saliva and the gastrointesti

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-elin-byman - 2025-10-29

Sabine Konings’ Ph.D. project sheds light on the role of different genetic variants of apolipoprotein E in early Alzheimer’s disease development. January 27, she defends her thesis. In this interview, she shares the most important findings as a Ph.D. student in the Experimental Dementia group. Tell us about your research! Apolipoprotein E4 (ApoE4) is the major genetic risk factor for developing la

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-sabine-konings - 2025-10-29

MultiPark leads one of the four projects recently selected by Lund University to pursue emerging research topics. The project eSCIENCE MOVES will apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to achieve new definitions of motor alterations in patients affected by Parkinson´s disease as well as rodent models of human parkinsonian features. Movement is the visible output of neuronal pathways li

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/escience-translational-movement-analysis - 2025-10-29

The PI retreat in January resulted in a groundbreaking decision: MultiPark’s working groups should be replaced by a more dynamic organization including both "special interest groups” and “task force groups”. Here is what will happen. Discussing the MultiPark seven translational working groups was an important point in the agenda of the PI member retreat in January. Already while planning for the m

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/working-groups-renovation-progress - 2025-10-29

During her Ph.D. studies, Caroline Haikal has investigated the connections between the gut and the brain in early Parkinson’s disease development. On March 11, she defends her work supervised by Prof. Jia-Yi Li. Here, Caroline tells us about her research in Neural Plasticity and Repair, one of MultiPark’s experimental research groups. Tell us about your research! My research is about the connectio

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-caroline-haikal - 2025-10-29

Better treatment with the Mange PD tool. A biobank that opens up for discoveries about disease development. Keys to life satisfaction in people with Parkinson’s disease. New insights into toxic protein aggregation. And a more detailed knowledge of abnormal movement patterns with artificial intelligence. Just to mention a few of all news related to Parkinson’s disease from the strategic research ar

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/world-parkinsons-day-five-promising-research-projects-multipark - 2025-10-29

Mona Hemmaty at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”On the Margins. Migrants, Status Mobility and Recent Turns in Swedish Migration Politics” today, 26 April at 10:15 in the Kulturen Auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas, Barcelona Centre for International AffairsAbstractMany people believe that changes in Swedish migrat

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/mona-hemmaty-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-10-29

Henriette Frees Esholdt has written the article "Virgins, Terrorists, and Ten Children: Immigrants' Humorous Play with Ethnic Stereotypes in Bonding with Danes in the Workplace" published in the journal Symbolic Interaction. The article explores immigrants' self‐directed ethnic humor in collegial relationships drawing on fieldwork in a multi‐ethnic workplace, an industrial kitchen in Denmark.It em

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/immigrants-humorous-play-ethnic-stereotypes-can-have-bonding-effect - 2025-10-29

Matthias Abelin at the Department of Sociology has defended his doctoral thesis in social anthropology ”A Swedish Dilemma: Culture and Rule of Law in Swedish Sickness Insurance” today, Friday 10th May at 10:00 in the Eden Auditorium in Lund. Swedish society has been described as both modern, liberal democratic and deeply humanitarian; and as more or less premodern, semi-authoritarian and potential

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/matthias-abelin-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-29

Doxa, a new student association at the Department of Sociology, hosted their first public event on 14th May. A panel discussion featuring researchers from Lund University and Denmark covered the implications of surveillance capitalism, a phenomenon expected to grow extensively in just a few years. Other than strengthening the sense of community among students at the department, Doxa wants to contr

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-student-association-starts-out-addressing-surveillance-capitalism - 2025-10-29

The building is the same, but the address has changed. From 1 July the Department of Sociology's address is Sandgatan 11. To make it easier for emergency services to find the right building in the Paradis area in Lund, several university buildings are changing addresses. On 1 July, the Department of Sociology's address was changed from Paradisgatan 5 to Sandgatan 11, with entrances A, B and C.The

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/department-sociology-gets-new-address - 2025-10-29

Sébastien Tutenges has studied overt and covert techniques used in bars and nightclubs to sell more alcohol, and noticed that they are most prevalent in low-priced venues with young patrons. Other than obvious methods to increase drinking – alcohol advertisements, special offers like Happy Hour, and large pitchers or shot glasses which speeds up consumption – bartenders can covertly affect patrons

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-bars-and-nightclubs-make-you-drink-more - 2025-10-29

Professor Anders Kjellberg has contributed to “Collective bargaining in Europe: towards an endgame”, a four-volume collection covering collective bargaining in EU member states since the year 2000. The literature explores how collective bargaining has been weakend or significantly changed in all 28 EU states. The main policy issue addressed by the authors is how the trend of collective bargaining’

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/comprehensive-work-collective-bargaining-eu - 2025-10-29